Buying them on sale and playing them for a while: The old trilogy has been masterly restored with a lot of passion. The good and the bad aspects of the original games are all still here in full glory. They even added an option for updated controls, which was a good idea on paper, but with these you can't even get the first secret of the first game because you can't do a backwards jump anymore. So I played with the old tank controls, like back in the day. But then they nullified every good will and intention and censored it for modern audiences, what is always unforgivable, especially for gamers like me, who nowadays can't buy half of all steam games in their country anymore, the censorship of old games has to stop hard and fast. I won't support the ME 1-3 and the SH2 remakes for the same reason. For TR 1-3, only the Mods are the real heroes of the story. Furthermore, it's April 2025 now and some of the achievements are still broken.
Warhammer 400.000: Space Marinade is the best game ever made. It's about a guy on his journey to learn how to respect different cultures, especially the one of the orc people. He fails with that. But meanwhile you can shoot, smash, slice and burn them all, so there are absolutely no limits to the imagination, none whatsoever. Afterwards, all of them are dead. And that is an imortant lesson we can all learn from.
I really liked the first installment. It was a slow paced shooter with really good leveldesign wich one could play if everything else was just a bit too much for the moment. The sequel of PW is kind of the exact opposite. It plays fast, death comes very easy, more enemies that bumrush you in numbers, f***ing hitscanners, a more linear leveldesign, not a second where nothing gnaws at you and most of the time you walk backwards to the last chokepoint while shooting hundreds of the same enemies again and again. Still a good game, it runs speed and gameplay wise in the same direction as DREAD TEMPLAR but it is not a good sequel to the first installment. FORGIVE ME FATHER is preferable for scratching the itch left by the the first PW.
